Protectorate gendarmerie

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The Protectorate gendarmerie was the uniformed police force responsible for maintaining public order and enforcing occupation policies in the Nazi-controlled Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
German gendarmerie 1
Protectorate gendarmerie canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf gendarmerie
law enforcement agency
police force
appliesToJurisdiction Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
cooperatedWith German Ordnungspolizei
Gestapo
Sicherheitsdienst
country Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
dissolvedIn 1945
employerOf Czech policemen
gendarmerie officers
hasCharacteristic armed
collaborationist
hierarchically organized
uniformed
hasDuty assisting in arrests of regime opponents
control of movement and identity papers
controlling black market and economic offenses
criminal investigations at local level
enforcing anti-Jewish measures
enforcing occupation policies
guarding important facilities
maintaining public order
participating in searches and raids
rural policing
supporting German security forces
supporting forced labor measures
surveillance of population
hasTypeOfJurisdiction rural areas and small towns
historicalContext Nazi occupation policies in Central Europe
legalBasis regulations of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia under German control
locatedInTime 1939
1940s
operatedIn Bohemia
Moravia
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
surface form: Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia
opposedBy Czechoslovak resistance
surface form: Czech resistance
partOf administration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
occupation security apparatus in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
replacedBy postwar Czechoslovak police
subordinateTo German occupation authorities
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia authorities
surface form: Ministry of the Interior of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
timePeriod German occupation of Czechoslovakia
surface form: Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia

World War II
usedLanguage Czech
German
wearsUniform uniform of the Protectorate gendarmerie

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement tookOrdersFrom Protectorate gendarmerie
this entity surface form: German gendarmerie